The spotty progress of neuroscience in the management fields : Evidence from bibliometrics and topic modeling techniques

The domain of neuroscience is differently spreading in management fields and little retrospective work on this spotty evolution has been made so far. This paper presents a thorough bibliometric and topic modeling analysis that scrutinize the progress of neuroscience in management. Firstly, we identified 151 published studies and provided a description of the research area by identifying the publishing trend in the number of studies on the topic and the most impactful sources and publications. Secondly, we used bibliometrics and data mapping techniques to graphically represent established and emergent research clusters (i.e., co-authorship, keywords co-occurrence and co-cited references). Thirdly and finally, a more thorough content analysis thorough topic modeling identified key research topics for each of the management branches in which neuroscience has developed so far. We draw on the systematic review’s results to identify the factors that have limited the progress of neuroscience in several management fields and suggest a new approach that can overcome those limits.